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centrism 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action
  2. (centrist) a person who takes a position in the political center
  3. (centrist) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative
  4. In politics, centrism is the ideal or the practice of promoting moderate policies that lie between different political extremes. ...
  5. (Centrist) A moderate or someone whose political beliefs are considered somewhere in between the accepted parties.
  6. (Centrist) Every leftist who is at least slightly to the right of Stalin.
  7. (Centrist) One who avoids political extremes by taking a position in the center. Used by the author to represent complacency.
  8. [In Marxist usage:] Views and positions which attempt to find a “middle ground” between revolutionary Marxism, on the one hand, and liberalism or revisionism, on the other hand. In other words, centrism is in practice usually a weaselly form of revisionism itself. ...
  9. The term used by Trotsky for tendencies in the radical movement which stand or oscilate between reformism,  which is the position of the labor bureaucracy and the labor aristocracy, and Marxism, which expresses the historic interests of the working class. ...
  10. adherence to a middle-of-the-road position, neither left nor right, as in politics. — centrist.